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Episode Synopsis
Inside Colorado's Troubling Wolf Reintroduction:In this explosive Through the Gates episode, fifth-generation ranchers Tim Ritschard and Doug Bruchez expose the truth behind the state’s wolf reintroduction fallout.This is the raw truth that chronicles exactly what has happened on the ground; from mass depredations, the total betrayal of a management plan, biologists and ranchers being kept in the dark and a political agenda determined to dismantle the Western lifestyle and wildlife management.💥 This is a real-world experience and timeline for those impacted by ballot box biology. Whether you voted for wolf reintroduction or not, this conversation shares the graphic reality of agenda driven wildlife management.🎯 Inside This Episode:- Firsthand accounts of livestock losses from the Copper Creek wolf pack.- What Colorado Parks & Wildlife didn’t tell ranchers—and how they found out the hard way.- A timeline of reintroduction and kills including the mass killing of over 33 calves.- The high human cost: stress, health issues, and broken trust.- How wildlife professionals and ranchers are both being hung out to dry by CPW brass and higher level politicians.- Why Colorado Parks and Wildlife ignored their own wolf management plan.- The emotional, economic, and ecological toll of ballot-box biology- Why Colorado ranchers say the wolves are just pawns in a political game.- Why compensation laws don’t begin to cover the losses🔔 Subscribe to Through the Gates for honest, hard-hitting conversations from the frontlines of conservation, wildlife management, and the fight to Save the Hunt.STREAM TO SHOW -https://throughthegates.buzzsprout.comhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwxUtD4G2tQ&list=PLVjalEoOauqM3xLSHrq3FO680x-XriQcD- Thank you to our Sponsors -https://davistent.com/https://minturnanglers.com/https://salidagunshop.com/#WolfReintroduction #ColoradoRanchers #ThroughTheGatesPodcast #WolvesInColorado #CPW #LivestockLoss #SaveTheHunt #MiddleParkColorado #RanchLife #PredatorPoliticsSend us a text STREAM TO SHOW - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVjalEoOauqM3xLSHrq3FO680x-XriQcD https://throughthegates.buzzsprout.com- Thank you to our Sponsors -https://davistent.com/https://minturnanglers.com/https://salidagunshop.com/https://www.coloradosheds.com/https://www.coloradooutfitters.org/
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